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title: But, mightier far than they, A wingèd goddess ran from sea to sea, T… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But, mightier far than they, A wingèd goddess ran from sea to sea, The island’s breadth, to hail him! Who acts: wingèd goddess. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 41

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But, mightier far than they, A wingèd goddess ran from sea to sea, The island’s breadth, to hail him!

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**Who acts:** wingèd goddess · **What happens:** run, hail · **To what, where:** sea, spake

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This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wingèd goddess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:15:43
# text = But, mightier far than they, A wingèd goddess ran from sea to sea, The island’s breadth, to hail him!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	mightier	mighty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wingèd	wingèd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	hail	hail	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | a wingèd goddess |  |  | sea |  | to sea and the island's breadth *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sea=Result |
| 2 | **hail** | to-infinitive |  | spake *= speak* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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